What The Fuck Does David Cameron Know About Poverty?

There are few things more vile than listening to a man born into a multi-million pound fortune lecturing the rest of us about whether people are really poor or not.

David Cameron’s pathetic tirade about poverty this week – during which he accused one of the most senior figures in the Catholic Church of lying about the extent of vicious cuts to social security – was exactly what might be expected from an aloof, out of touch Prime Minister who’s never had to do a real day’s work in his life.

Cameron claims that Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols’ statement that the safety net of the welfare state has disappeared for many people is ‘just not true’. After all, David Cameron doesn’t know any poor people and life in Chipping Norton is simply spiffing. He goes on to say how lucky those unable to find a job are to be entitled to just over £70 a week, less than he probably spends on lunch.

What Cameron doesn’t say is that due to the raft of vicious cuts to other benefits, much of that £70 is now likely to be eaten away by the Bedroom Tax, Housing Benefit shortfalls or Council Tax bills. In some cases these expenses could almost cut that money in half, and after utility bills and even modest debts there could be nothing at all left for food.

For those on out of work sickness or disability benefits, the situation is little better. The extra £30 a week is unlikely to go far, and the additional costs of living with an illness or disability will soon eat it up. As rent and bills soar, and benefits are pegged to rise below the rate of inflation, the safety-net has indeed disappeared. There might be just about enough to pay the landlord, the utility companies and depending where you live Council Tax, but not enough for an adequate diet. As for money for haircuts, clothes, travel fares, phone calls and all the other vital expenses which enable someone to successfully look for work, not a chance.

Approaching a million benefit claims were sanctioned in just one year the DWP reported this week. That means people going with nothing at all in some cases, or if they are lucky enough to qualify for Hardship Payments, around £40 a week. Sanctions can now last up to three years. The horrifying toll this takes on individuals has been well documented by charities, foodbanks and by thousands of claimants themselves online. In a move of breath-taking cruelty, even these meagre payments are to be converted to loans under Universal Credit, trapping claimants in debt, potentially for years.

Benefits delays, which could mean waits of up to six months for some disability benefits, also leave people with nothing at all. Once Crisis Loans provided a scant, but vital emergency service for those whose claims were held up, often due to DWP bungling. These small loans, which were repayable and barely cost the tax payer a penny, were scrapped as part of Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms. Short Term Benefit Advances are still available, but the DWP is doing everything it can to hide that fact from claimants. If a claim is held up due to an honest mistake made by a claimant, then they now face a fine of £50 on top of their wait for benefits.

David Cameron was right about one thing in his spittle-flecked rant this week. The changes to benefits are not about saving money. Social Security spending is rising, and measures like the Bedroom Tax, Benefit Cap and the closure of the Independent Living Fund for the most severely disabled people are likely to cost the country far more in the long run. The social costs of this onslaught, which is set to push millions more children into poverty, will be felt for generations.

Billions is being handed out to the private sector to bully and harass the poorest and in some cases the most vulnerable people in the country. Whether by humiliating and constant health assessments or forcing people into unpaid work for hours on end, it is no longer enough for this Government just to make the poor destitute, they must be endlessly abused. Those who had nothing to begin with are now the human sacrifices of austerity, designed to distract from the financial crimes of the rich.

The harder the odds are stacked against you, the harder this Government will kick you. It is people with mental health conditions, severe illnesses or disabilities, struggling single parents, people battling addiction, those fleeing domestic violence or people who have grown up in care who are facing the full force of this Government’s war on the poor.

This is the twisted morality Cameron speaks of when he pretends he is doing all this to help the poor. He knows there will never be enough jobs for everyone and that capitalism – and the huge profits made from it by the obscenely rich – depend on unemployment to keep wages down. David Cameron believes the poor should be punished as a lesson to everyone else. Work hard, take a pay cut and do what your boss tells you, or it could be you being abused, impoverished and harassed.

It is the morality of the school bully and it is a contemptible. David Cameron won the lottery on the day he was born. Yet still him and his band of braying toffs steal away what little poor people have to survive on, and then tell them their hunger is all in their imagination. It is the rich out of control and increasingly even some of the rich and powerful themselves are realising that. But it will only be bloody class vengeance, not Bishops, which can hold these arrogant toffs to account for the suffering they have caused.

Did you catch the latest stats on employment ? What ho those wimmin ppl now have jobs ..lots of them too…
Apparently the downside will be finding a nanny for jemimah and rupert but those come cheap these days doncha know

chewie
major “back to basics”, (wasn’t that the moral argument?)..yes please i said, whoops we made a mistake, now the moral argument, they have already lost the moral argument hands down…the claim now a moral duty, what happened to the “we’re skint”, argument, oh they’ve lost that one too….or take one of the millions of new jobs out there, oh they’ve lost that one too, coz there are no jobs, or to the sick and disabled pick up yer bed and walk, oh dear they’ve lost that one too…now where were we, ahh morality, what will it be next height, size of feet or a ban on breathing too much air…

Its klarce war old bean…went to Eton dear boy …threw eggs at the plebs ..daddy got me a job at PR even though I knew feck all about it..working for drinks company was a wheeze all that free booze.
The memsahib mind you funny one that her hanging around hip hop rappers ..still I am the only one who gets to see the tattoos

Landless, if he stood before you, you would bottle it, because you would have to get past his body guards first. But ! if you happened to be his wife and found out that he was having an affair !
Job done

David cuntmeron and his boyfriend Iain Duncan Shite never worry about the bedroom tax, evictions, people getting JSA sanctions, food banks or the recent flooding crisis.

The tory turds are living in a parallel universe as far as we are concerned. Everybody in this country employed, unemployed, sick, physically impaired are paying their wages and bedroom taxes, not the tory tickturds, we are!

DC was born with a silver spoon buried deep up his jacksie, his mother is unknown – probably a downstairs maid working in some toff’s country estate being bunged up the duff every night by her lord and master whilst his wife was away in London fiddling their end-of-year tax returns.

The top tory twerp should stop piddling around with endless photo-shoots while knee deep in murky water while everyone around him sees their house and possessions float away on the tide and get his fucking hands dirty with a shovel and start digging out the affected rivers; or is he attending yet another posh do entertaining his mate from America?

I’m applying for 10 jobs per week also in all travel-to-work areas around here, but it’s getting ridiculous now. JCP job application targets are set up purely to trip people up into making big mistakes and easy sanction victims.

If you haven’t been deemed to be applying for 5 jobs per week, your claim agreement is revised to 10 jobs per week minimum with no chance of a get-out clause. That’s what I don’t call real help, and in the words of a silly JCP bitch with nothing to do in the JCP except twiddle her thumbs she says ”struggling to find and apply for 5 jobs a week? I know, let’s make it harder for you to escape a sanction, you must do 10 jobs per week minimum or we will fail you again and bung you out to dry on a three month sanction”

UJM is full of third-party recruitment links that if by digging further around on reverse IP look up websites, nearly all of them are run as a one-person operation and the jobs are made up out of thin air.

May 2015 and if we are lucky, all of the tory toffs will be thrown out and ids will be made out as a complete laughing stock through failed, economic policies costing far more money than anybody ever thought was possible.

A clear and loud message to all the parasites infesting the houses of parliament – stop fiddling the country with your endless tax evasions, MP’s bonuses and photo shoots. Get out to the people before you are all hung out to dry next year, and that includes all other parties in government as well.

this government really has no shame.all of this is to please the upper class tory voters.duncan smith,has wasted millions of pounds on worthless schemes.universal jobmatch cost millions,it is a shambles,everyone knows that.universal credit is costing millions,it’s unworkable,again everyone knows that.they will feel the full force at next years general election

The failed government propaganda jobsite just advertises fake recruitment website links all over it as no right-minded employer no longer uses it themselves.

I mentioned about this in an complaint sent directly to the drones via their website and all I got back from them was ”we give employers a choice on how they can advertise their vacancies”

The thing is though, employers don’t use UJM anymore after it was involved with a selling scam connected to eBay, countless sex jobs being freely advertised and people’s identity being stolen to order by criminal gangs.

Well today I found a job I might be able to do, as a shipping clerk.
So I tried to apply for it. Only to be told, you must join the employment agency. Okay I said, then I’ll join. They said, we will not let YOU join.
I said, how do I apply then? They said, you can’t! On Monday I have to tell this to the JobShitter Plus. And try not to be sanctioned on account of the employment agency being dicks.

Obviously the employment agency will be siding with your JCP and make a claim that you didn’t turn up to the EA to register or that you were abusive. Smacks of corporate back-handing between two sets of toffee-nosed twats all in bed together.

I’d sue the EA for refusing your rights to register and apply for that job – they technically cod be breaking employment laws for refusing you that job position that would get you from the claws of the JCP beasts.

I cannot hold it in any more. I find what is going on sickening. There is NO way anyone can understand it because the people doing all of it are total psychopaths and sociopaths, and you cannot reason with these people any more that you can expect them to have a conscience or any compassion. They are cold, heartless and natural born manipulators and lying scumbags! God help anyone who is out of work, sick, suffering from a mental health disorder, elderly, terminally ill or trying to survive on bugger all raising children – the creatures running the show are so far removed from not just society and the vulnerable people, but they are detached from humanity and any sense of warmth – these are truly dark creatures and basically, need to go.

I would like to see them change THEIR ugly putrid ways, but that isn’t going to happen any time soon so as far as I see it we need to shove them all on a plane and send them somewhere they cannot do any damage!

Imagine a job where EVERYTHING you need to live is classed as a legitimate expense and is covered by your boss, and you have an idea.
It isnt what is PAID that counts so much, as what he has to spend.
In other words everything he earns goes in the bank untouched.
Even a plate of sandwiches eaten at a desk is classed as required by the job. A £70 bottle of wine is for ‘entertainment’. A visit to a ‘health specialist’ is deemed essential.
If you get a free flat and a motor in your job the tax man will cut you to shreds but if you are the p.m. its ‘necessary for the job.’.
So tax free.

@Samurai ..hmm how about the deaths that Atos caused ? Are they playing a game here with DWP where playing the victim takes the heat off them in order to keep or get more contracts ? I think there maybe more to this than what we are told

@nuggy. Maybe but they lobbied hard for those contracts and they are in bed with a lot of politicians in places ..seems to cozy for me.
They still have contract on Universal Crapit and govt gateway and NHS contracts

WAS 4 children but one died. He is supposed to be a Christian (C of E) believe it or not and whilst I am not religious myself I would have thought that may be a sign from God to mend his evil ways but as ever the profoundly ignorant elitist toff didn’t listen and so now being the cruel and evil ‘man’ that he is he decided to take-out his anger and sorrow about the death of his child on the unemployed and the poor instead of manning up and being reasonable about it.

The benefit cuts have never been about money. The cuts have been the tool by which the rich elite, Cameron’s bosses, have been able to persecute – I SAID PERSECUTE – the poor, the disabled and the unemployed. This is Cameron’s ‘moral crusade’ as much as it was Hitler’s moral crusade to torture (persecute) and kill Jews. There is no difference. Cameron is a vile shite who is a criminal – he and Osborne and Duncan Shit should be tried for crimes against humanity and given life – I MEAN TOTAL LIFE – sentences cleaning the snow off the Arctic Circle

Remember, despite the 6 million murdered Jews, there was approx 7 million other victims including the disabled, homosexuals, prisoners of war, romani and polish people. This list isn’t exhaustive. So although just under 6 million Jews were killed they were round half the deaths*

Your blog is awesome. I shared it on g+.
I’m disabled and I suffered the cuts till I found employment in 2012. I don’t understand why the most vulnerable are forced to suffer.
We all saw what happened to Gadaffi and Sadam. Just because of the illusion of choice and democracy the way this country is run is legal how?!?!

Cameron was interviewed there and said that it’s untrue what the Archbishop said and that there were safety nets in place, like JSA and sickness benefit!!! LOLOLOL! That’ll be the same safety net that’s currently being torn asunder with more than a quarter of a million benefit sanctions between July and September eh? What safety net do those poor souls have when their benefits are cut off? No money for rent, no money for heating, no money for food.

Mavis Cameron worked for the chorion nightclub group as a
‘pr man’ before becoming leader of the opposition.
He knew sfa about the biz, and was ripped apart by Paxman
about it. For this position he turned up for 4 hours a month, and his salary was £28k a year. Or, £550 / hr. He did nothing but SPOUT CRAP to the owners of the clubs group he was working in there interests to secure 24hr licensing for his money.
Thats the nearest he ever got to a J.O.B. If you showed him a pile of shovels and told him to take his pick he would be fucked.

@donkey maybe but the tories are like vultures in their mindset you got to remember its two parties ..the back bench right wing and the wets its always been like that ..and they can smell weakness in a leader they will go for it..

@Donkey. These companies contribute to the party so they are gonna keep them on board ..but since all the fuckups and cruelty they caused and the publicity they will need to bring in a Cary sharey company ok ?
But that would piss off the right wing hang em flogem brigade who think jobless should be in workhouse and make a profit for the company ..
You see what I mean its a balancing act .pr spin and keep the illusion of united party
And the cracks are already there with cleggy
Talking about ddeals with labour.

CHANNEL FOUR SHOULD BE DOING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BILL GUNNYEON, THE SO CALLED, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE DWP……..

WHAT AN EXCITING STORYLINE………….

LINKS TO CAPITA, LINKS TO UNUM INSURANCE, HOW HE AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS OF THE FACULTY OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE LAID THE PATH FOR WELFARE REFORMS TO ALLOW AMERICAN STYLE HEALTH INSURANCE ON OUR SHORES…………………..

THE PATHWAY TO PRIVATISATION OF THE NHS AND THE TWISTED IDEALS OF MANSEL AYLWARD, THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND ATOS AND ITS WARPED CREDENTIALS…………………………….

ETC, ETC, ETC………………

THE MAKING OF MODERN BRITAIN BY SECRET LOBBYING AND MINISTERS IN THE POCKETS OF THE INSURANCE MULTINATIONALS………

@GEOFF @Pat why the fuck did they push for the gagging bill to pass ? To keep secret all the business lobbying and connections
If this shit unravels then the Atos thing might be a scandal and also bollox up the whole welfare reform
Where is Drunken Sniff of late is he is hiding?

All very odd.. There are games being played out here all sides jockeying for position
The tory party is vicious
Even to its own. It will show that All they care about is themselves the dead don’t count they only interested in their postion
In the party . hopefully the public will see
Them for the scum they are

@Donkey yeah i do…but I’m trying to see where its going according to the political shenanigins…that might not bother you but if it all makes this shit govt implode then good… Btw don’t be such a tart…I’m only trying to assist as best I can. I’m not a well person. So gimmeva break already ..

chewie
i’m not a well person neither so give me a break too…it bothers me that you wind yourself up with pixels actually, the big picture is what counts the downfall of capitalism…so i am actually concerned with your well being, if you must know, but had you noticed that? ….

@Donkey sorry but all this is feeding into my insecurity I guess and being in this place
and seeing a close friend commit suicide over benefits brings it all closer to home for me.. Its not some story in a newspaper ..its someone I bloody knew.
That gets to you..

Well, this money cull happened a few years ago whereby the gov. of the day gave £860 BILLION of the peoples money in cash and pledges to various banks because they had overspent a little bit, so you personally have to come up with a deposit for a large house and until you have given that to the government for nothing, the country will be in dept.
Obviously the gov. dont expect the rich to pay, because they all actually had biz investments with the said banks and if the banks had folded, they would have lost all there property; so you, I, and everybody else at the bottom must pay for their Yachts. Is that clear enough?

chewie
yes i know it feeds into you’re insecurities, but you are no1, anxiety is caused by unreliable people, get as many of them as possible out of your life and don’t invite them back in….we all have lives full of tragedy at times, i’ve lost loved one’s too, many friends, and relations, they would not want you to drive yourself into the ground, now would they…don’t let these other bastards get at YOU, your inner sanctuary, yes, go ouch, then send these wasters on their way…make it count…something like that anyway…

@Donkey not easy when you are chasing a mouse round the room and have noisy neighbours shouting at 2am because they
Are mentally unwell and on medication
And I am isolated and have no one cept a social worker to help out. My ” life ” is already minimal enough as it is with out clearing out any more people…

chewie
i’ve got a mouse in the ‘ouse, i don’t bother to chase him, he lives by the fridge motor, lucky bastard, at least he’s warm….we’re all suffering, but you have to find some space in this madness for yourself…and why would you want bad “friends”?….

Donkey, I lived in a penthouse flat in zone 1 several years ago that had been empty for some time. Peppercorn rent job for a year (favour from the landlord)..
One night I spied a mouse shooting back into the bedroom skirting board. He had been going thru my weetabix etc and destroying the boxes and cartons for weeks.Probably a she actually.. But I am a beer monster and a fair guy, so every night when I got home I left a strip of kebab meat or a huge chip(with sauce on), or cashews or chocolate raisins in front of the hole.
That was an end to mouse shit in me cornflakes, and a lesson for all.
No pesticides required; tho i spect the life expectancy went down they died happy. fat too, I guess.
The lesson is there for all politicians, but they want to eat our kebabs.

A few years ago i was sitting with my son on the seafront at Scarborough where we live.

We watched a vagrant reach into a filthy rubbish bin and pull out a half eaten ice cream cornet that a woman had thrown in.
The ice cream was covered in cigarette ends that the vagrant carefully pulled off.

He smiled as he licked that ice cream, to him it was the treat of a lifetime!

I have come to understand how something so insignificant to one person can mean so much to somebody else……………………………..

It is now four years since we lit our gas fire, the warmth in our hearts will see us by.

Good for you geoff. These filthy rich greedy politicians (nasty ids, smarmy lying git cameron, n ester mcfestering have only coldness in their hearts. Slowly the unconscious hatred they project onto others will eat away at them until their is no one left to hate, and they will fester with this in old age.

There was a tramp in my home town who used to sleep in the boneyard when I was a boy-
Used to wander the market place and ask for spare pennies. I had heard he was a clever fella once, before tragedy struck his life and left him alone and booze addled down to a child. I know he is long gone, but if I ever meet another like him I will buy him large chicken and chips and a 6 pack of quality ale. Ya just dont know how long life lasts.

Is an unofficial quota system for food bank vouchers operating at job centres? One man who called into a food bank in this London borough recently said he was told by his job centre that they’d given out 15 vouchers already that week

ON TUESDAY I HAD TO ATTEND A TRIBUNAL TO TRY AND HAVE MY DLA REINSTATED AFTER IT WAS REMOVED FOR FAILING TO FILL IN A QUESTIONNAIRE THAT WANTED TO KNOW HOW MY DISABILITY AFFECTED ME.

THE REASON I DID NOT FILL IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE IS OBVIOUS, MY CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEVER CHANGED AND I OBJECTED TO HAVING TO MAKE A DECLARATION THAT I AGREED TO BE SENT FOR ANOTHER MEDICAL TO ATOS.

USING THE LAST MEDICAL FROM ATOS THEY STOLE MY INCAPACITY BENEFIT AND DEEMED ME FIT FOR WORK EVEN THOUGH THEY PAY ME INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT………………

HERE ARE THE FINDINGS OF MY DLA TRIBUNAL;

1/ THE APPEAL IS REFUSED.

2/ THE DECISION MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE ON 1/10/2013 IS CONFIRMED.

3/ MR G REYNOLDS IS NOT ENTITLED TO EITHER COMPONENT OF DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE WITH EFFECT FROM 24/072013.

4/ THE FACTS ARE NOT IN DISPUTE. THE DTERMINATION IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION 18 OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY AND CHILD SUPPORT (DECISIONS AND APPEALS) REGULATIONS 1999 FOLLOWED A SUSPENSION OF BENEFIT USING REGULATION 17 OF THE SAME REGULATIONS. THIS WAS A RESULT OF A FAILURE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION PURSUANT TO REGULATION 32 OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY (CLAIMS AND PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS 1987.

SIGNED TRIBUNAL JUDGE, D J WALL. 18/02/2014

…………………………………………………………………….

strangely,

one of the adjudication panel was a female doctor who had sat on an earlier tribunal that i attended for ESA.

” WHY WAS A TRIBUNAL ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IF THE PRESENCE OF THIS FIGURE COULD TAINT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE PANEL WHO ULTIMATELY MADE THE ADJUDICATION?”

Strangely the link to this report, which was published on the 29th July, seems to have disappeared from the DWP website, although it is still available on google cache and at: https://www.gov.uk/government/upload…ent-report.pdf

geoff
“This will not be an option where families can choose not to be involved in…..if they refuse to participate, their benefits will be stripped under sanctions.” ….that is immoral….also they claim that the families who “choose” to be involved must match the dwp’s commitment..also immoral…it is called bullying…which is the cause of the problem in the 1st place, bullying….no strings, money/resource’s/support mostly works and has been proven over and over again to mostly work….so why are they doing something that rarely works and has been shown time and time again to rarely work? why are they so fixated on punishment as being moral? all this scheme will create is more dependency, more violence, and worse outcomes for children and families, this is not love empathy and compassion, but hatred, towards the poor….

I have a Pal;known him years. Expert in I.T. Tech,
Mech. engineering and railway rolling stock and tracks, signals etc.
He is a bit older than me, and has a slow cancer of the digestive system. He is grey like john major’s spitting image puppet,, skeletal, has a colostomy bag and has been in hospital for 3 months of each of the last 3 years having operations.
Atos have declared him fit for work 3 times in those years and the poor guy can manage at best a walk. Anybody looking at him asleep on a park bench would dial 999. He managed 6 weeks work last yr, he enjoyed it. But he shouldnt HAVE TO, should he? In the words of his family its ‘Fucking Disgusting’_ His intellect and humanity is greater than everybody in the cabinet put together, and all he ever asked for was to be left alone.I would never infringe on his privacy, but he tells me of others worse off.

So just had to share this. This is a nurse from Liverpool who phoned up George Galloway to have a go at the unemployed. This is symptomatic of the way the right wing scum have poisoned the minds of ordinary people. People that are as stupid as this guy make me feel sick. But all is not lost watch/listen to the video.

Now that the money laundering ATOS, by using un-trained health assessors, has decided to quit, when are all the current provider contracts and contractors for the failed, over-blown work programme going to go the same way and back out away from the immorally diseased government?

Maybe the WPP are getting more money each week than ATOS have been squandering by supplying a constant cash-cow (un-employed) to keep their coffers overflowing and that nothing is going tits up with any of them for some time?

I know for a fact that my own WPP is on the gravy train and not short of flinging their payments around when only last month they were offering a Kindle Tablet as a raffle prize to anybody attending who did the most activities in securing a job through them. Money is no object when they can bribe us WPP plebs into doing more than we can currently do in the tough jobs market with a Kindle Tablet.

The poster with this prize information is still being displayed as of earlier this week (Monday). As for any announcements anywhere (even a poster on the bog walls) proudly stating who won the prize, the cowards are strangely quite on this one.

I suspect one of the staff themselves have bagged the Kindle for themselves after being hard done by, by myself perhaps as I don’t give them an easy ride any more on each Monday I have to waste there…

My WPP is ‘Papworth Trust’ funded by those tax crooks Ingeus, so I can see why client attendance payments of £250 per client is so lucrative, as is a final cash payment of £1000 or £2000 is made to them if one of their slave clients lands a job through them for a least six months and that my WPP can claim this brucie bonus if they contact the employer to fill out an Q&A form.

The sooner I am away from this corrupt provider the better for me. They may be in the sewer but they are NOT dragging me down with them and making me feel guilty for simply being a victim of the banking crisis in 2008 when I lost my job through that. Bastards.

What about all the people who have lost their jobs through redundancy and austerity measures? Are they under the same umbrella of fecklessness? The Work Program is a shambles, not one person I deal with there has any answers for me, they promise courses, retraining and IT support week after week but nothing happens at all, they have a very small list of vacancies, Call Centre work, Carers, all dead end minimum wage dross less thkan 30 hours a week, oh yeah and most jobs require you to have your own transport, how is that possible on 71:70 a week?
Great blog though Mr V everything youv’e said is spot on.

I lost my job (after fighting hard to get it in the first place, albiet through a New Deal course) in 2008 because of the government and bankers colluding together to crash the economy.

With the government attacking me for being un-employed at present, whose fucking fault is it that I am still struggling to return to work? The previous government fucked me over and cost me a decent wage and now the current government are fucking me over for saying I’m lazy. wankers.

I am applying for a minimum of 10 jobs per week via CV library and the bollocks UJM, but I get nothing in return such as employer feedback. If there are jobs out there, where the fuck are they? I’ve seen part-time cleaning jobs on UJM that are in Peterborough (near my location) and that only offer four hours per week work – will that cover my bus fares? the fuck it won’t.

Nearly two years now since being on the WP and what has it done to me? It has cost me my pride, my self-belief in people, my health and it has made me bitter and angry like never before.

Fuck the work programme. It only provides work for so-called WP advisors and helps keep a roof over their heads. I’m just a fucking cash-cow for them as long as I keep attending under threat of sanctions.

If I don’t attend one week, they don’t get paid that week’s £250 brucie bonus, and if they don’t get that money for that week I’m up against a faceless, heartless bastard with a fancy title of ‘decision maker’

Chipping Norton: When my mate was living near the town (not in a posh, big house either!) he used to go to the Kebab van in the town centre often, in the evening, and when we used to visit him he took us. Know doubt Dave did too, after a ‘few’ beers in a local pub, of course. And the favourite snack after said alcohol intake intake? KEBAB! (Whether he remembered the way home afterwards, that’s something you’ll have to ask his driver). So you see, Dave might well be able to say “I know what the hard working, but poor people are going through, so I say to them EAT KEBABS! PS And stop feeling sorry for yourselves, go forth and buy a Kebab van, you know it makes sense!.Now sod off, all you oiks.

very good post but lets not forget to apply it to leaders of the left and anarchist scenes and other oppressions. whites aren’t experts on racism, men don’t know shit about sexism, the able bodied can’t speak for the disabled and Mackelmore is not an expert on LQBTQIA+ issues.

Not feeling to good at the moment, but i will just say i;ve never in my whole life felt so bitter and evil towards these creatures in this Government, once again you see that sick looking bastard cameron with that stupid smile, get the bastard out!

I was watching BBC Parliament last night (Friday 21st Feb) from 9:30pm and they happened to be re-showing the 1974 general election.

The things being spoken on there by the experts with kipper ties, were identical to what is going on in today’s 21st century Britain. One thing stood out on last night’s programme was they were talking about Scottish Independence must come about as soon as possible. Nothing has changed in 2014 has it when it comes to yet more waffle about Scotland breaking up the United Kingdom

Going is the best favour the scotts could do;
Nothing deminishes a power nutter more than losing control. Then I think we should aliege building by building to scotland and tell parliament to stuff it.

Yeah, that was fun… watching Alistair Burnett constantly waffling on about the ‘computer prediction’. What sort of computer was that in 1974? Wonder how many households had flatscreen colour TVs then? 🙂

If they had showed that ’74 election special on BBC1 in the afternoon instead of from 9.30pm on BBC Parliament channel people would think there was an election taking place for real.

The thing that made me laugh a lot was when during the vintage election coverage re-run on BBC Parlilament was the moment when Alistair Burnett announced, along with a caption on-screen that BBC 2 would be showing children’s programming at 4pm instead of on BBC1.

”Now on BBC one and with the time at 4 o’clock, Election Special ’74 with your host Alistair Burnett in a flappy kipper tie and bad side-burns. Commentary and analysis from around the country from Glasgow (in black & white) as the jocks have not yet discovered colour television or it is too expensive for those tight-arses.”

”If you were expecting to see Blue Peter, The Wombles, and the Magic Roundabout, children’s programming will begin in a moment over on BBC Two.”

If the rich are in the minority, then the poor should be the ones with the power and sending these nazi’s to training camps to alter their mindsets, after alleviating them of any blood money or other wealth they have acquired through hatred, crime and bloodshed.

The only prize I would give to the tory twats is a kick up the arse for not helping me find a job and instead letting my health and general well-being fall apart for being on the corrupt work programme.

Ah, NO actually. There are a squidzillion slave labour jobs out there they have created for you by importing 8 million unskilled toss pots; You just have to knuckle down and make up the £680 billion they gave to their mates in the banks in your lifetime. £6 and a half an hr. Better get started, Eh?

”George Osborne has adopted the 5:2 diet, an event so exciting that bookmakers are taking bets on how well he’ll do. He may have been motivated by awareness that obesity is bad for you, or by the imminence of Lent; or he may at a deeper level be illustrating the adage that inside every fat person there’s a thin one signalling to be let out.”

”There may also have been at the back of the chancellor’s mind a Pickles factor: better for any politician to be, in the standard simile, thin as a rake, invoking a useful implement which clears up messes before it’s too late, rather than being compared with a sandbag. But more likely it’s just that a chancellor preaching unrelenting austerity ought not to look too plump or too pleased with himself.”

”A lean and hungry look may have made Caesar suspicious of Cassius, but in modern PR terms it is clearly something Mr Osborne needs for authenticity. Such things matter far more in an age when image is the essence of politics – though, even in former times, it’s doubtful if Mahatma Gandhi could have brought such conviction to self-abnegation had he been built on the lines of Nicholas Soames. Being parcelled up to look appropriate for your role may have to be a necessary qualification for all high political office.”

”David Cameron may find himself driven to sport the iconic prime ministerial handbag, and Theresa May to wear police boots not kitten heels, while Michael Gove could so far remodel himself that passers-by begin to think they’ve bumped into Socrates or Shakespeare.”

In other words, they are all greedy, fat bastards stuffing their fat faces with piles of food from money given to them through JSA sanctions, the bedroom tax, etc, while the rest of Britain has to either starve to death, be evicted or be forced to use food banks.

As long as they live the high life and start to worry about their ever-expanding waistlines, money, rent, bills, food and luxuries are what WE are being denied on a daily basis. fucking greedy pigs with their noses in the trough yet again!

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He knows there will never be enough jobs for everyone and that capitalism, and that the huge profits made by the obscenely rich depend on unemployment to keep wages down.

i was sanctiond at the jobcenter for not ticking a box online that alows them to see what job searches ive done. i did not know i was supost to do this since them being able to see what im searching is madetory. this ment that my partener, my 2 year girl and I had to go without for 4 weeks. all our benefits stoped around the board. this now means im in debt with the landloard, council tax, water, tv licence, no money for gas or electric (even when we do we cant afford to heat our home) no money for travle or food, cant wash our cloths, cant pay for my girls pre school, relying on the donations from the food bank is hard.

@ red – found this on unemploymentmovement.com. Have cut and paste it as I’m no good at posting links or sourcing that sort of info myself. At least they haven’t got around to charging those sanctioned for their own appeals yet.

As it stands there is absolutely nothing they can do to gain access to your UJM account if you choose not to give permission and that includes looking over your shoulder as you use it. There has always been rumour that the DWP are working away at a way to overcome this inconvenience for them but it’s yet to see the light of day.

Regulation 24 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 requires the claimant to provide information about the extent to which they are actively seeking employment as may be required to determine their entitlement to JSA, but it does not prescribe how that information is provided.http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/181740/re…/FOI%205002.pdf.html

Ha Ha, yes, zero hrs. What a strange concept.
You sign this contract that says you will work for us even though we guarantee you no work, and we will offer you a job.
Eh? How about a 40 hrs contract? Where they sign agreeing to give me a full wage packet evry week, and I might turn in a couple of days a week to get em out the shit.
How about that? Would they sign that? Coss I wouldnt
bloody sign the other one, I can tell you.

These twats have failed and failed and failed again at everything they promised before the election. They have been caught out lying again and again. When this happens, they shrug their shoulders……. and bloody well carry on doing it! In what other job could you bullshit, lie, and fail over and again without being sacked?

We are allowing this to carry on, along with the destruction of our benefits system, and the willful destruction of the nhs. WHY are we being “ruled” by a class which is in a tiny minority and one which has nothing whatsoever in common with the rest of us? (Praise be!) Why are these uncaring, greedy, unintelligent, selfish egotists anywhere near SW1?

Nanny>private school>Eton…… and then bought in passageway to a university somewhere. Finally, where shall we put the blighter, dear? Oh yes. Safe Tory seat, and let him loose with the rest of the chinless, braindead, braying oafs, Parliament beckons. Does that lifestyle sound anything like that of the rest of us??

Time to get rid. The Parliamentary hierarchy needs dramatic rethinking, along with another peculiar sect which gets away with whatever it likes. The bankers………..

We have no need to face poverty Dickensian style in this country. We are suffering from a now ailing education system, one which is intent on producing monosyllabic dull witted kids who have no interest in reading and learning.

Meanwhile, when these kids return home, their entertainment is the cheap, undemanding generic Simon Cowell talent free zone. These offerings require no skill, no concentration and certainly no sentient mind. As far as I can see, the only purpose of these is to consign any musical talent to the bin, whilst removing our brain cells one by one thus killing any self will. So then: no decent tv, music, and certainly none of the comedy which sharpened both tongues and minds in the 80s. Satire.

Is this the same David Cameron who, as a schoolboy, travelled to some rich heir/brat’s birthday party in NY first class on concorde? Is it the same David Cameron who has champagne and caviar for his ‘packed lunch’ at school and college?

Could it be the same David Cameron, who saw his daughter with a bit of messy cake on her face at some kids party, and he said to her ‘You look like something (not someone, something!) off a council estate!’

What do you want me to say? I feel for the guy; However.
His life has gone to shit since he personally decided a form that came through his letterbox didnt apply to him. Life on bens just isnt like that is it?
And yes ,I can spell. I have had some bad deals too.
By my reckoning I have had that life story up on my P.C.
185 times now. Ihave to erase the post . Sorry Geoff.

Let us be fair here; everybody deserves some say but repetitive material posted over and again removes objectivity and authenticity from the site’s reputation. This isnt the Sun. It also makes for boring posts arriving in your email box ad infin. If anybody keeps pasting the same 200 words in, well it should be stopped.

@ Pat Ato. As Geoff has told us (repeatedly or not) he was awarded his disability payments “for life” (the government’s words, not his). They then move the goalposts after the match has been “won”. If you have had “some bad deals too”, you of all people should know that just because something is government policy doesn’t mean it is morally or even legally right, as cases won against the government have shown. Geoff doesn’t just write about himself or his own circumstances; despite his disabilities and the horrendous predicament which the government has placed him in, he still has sympathy for others who are lesser victims of the same rotten-to-the-core system. If I find anything boring I skip it (no big deal, better than being insulting). Perhaps it is easier for me as I don’t have anything from this blog delivered to my email box.

Well fuck u mr david cunt(er)moron i cant wait to see u sacked an kicked out onto the citys streets an gutters to live as a stinking ill homeless dying nhs denied piece of shit, (no offence to decent homeless folks, if u see him kicl his ass for us), this eugenics usin ethic cleanin royalist scum sucking pig shit has been kickin an robbing us for too long, his kind are everythin thats always been wrong wiv brit society ignorance an neglect,

Who cares what he knows about poverty !!! Does he know enough to inform his “masters” to keep out ILLEGAL ALIENS who will destroy England??
Oh wait – that was his “masters”‘ plan all along, wasn’t it! He will forever be remembered as an impotent, simpering puppet!

Also no one complains that they are in the same category as the posh welfare house in london costing 1200 to 1500 per week all paid for inc council tax etc of tax payers money why dont people comment on that also where would we be without nhs they are trying to privatise that too n doctors hitting the street for 1% increase well they theow it in their face and give them selves an increase n also tax payers money goes to their posh meals meeting overnight stay n travel expenses isnt it about time it should come out of there pay packet it seems to me they never ment in george osbournes red book when he was david camerons side kick about there welfare n luxeries they get n david cameron avoidibg tax and ok for bond tax thats the reason we should all hit the street as they set the law rules that we have to obey n they dont obey one and no other job out there get the posh welfare bar them lets save money they say hitting poor why not cut there posh welfare!!!!

Both Duncan Smith AND Cameron claimed DLA for their family at one point. Yet I was told a year ago, that although my situation and circumstances had not changed, my DLA was going to be cut. The end. Why the hell should ANY rich Tory, especially those whose family fortunes were made by extreme tax avoidance, be in charge of benefits, or indeed the NHS? These creatures have no need of the nhs, and certainly will not be scrabbling around for the money to put in the lec or gas meter. Kicking at those who are struggling for food, struggling to keep warm is a cheap and cowardly thing to do. And to then use the media to appeal to the inherent snobbery of some others (think D Mail readers, in leafy Carshalton Beeches, Surrey) telling them that we are all skiving bastards who are living the life of Riley……. Not really sure who is worse. Those who are weak enough to believe such rubbish, or those who plant the info, knowing exactly what the response will be.

This government has to be the weakest, most spiteful (and spineless) bunch in memory. They have to go.

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